The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.

Nature has not intended mankind to work from eight in the morning until midnight without that refreshment of blessed oblivion which, even if it only lasts twenty minutes, is sufficient to renew all the vital forces.

I have had to eat my own words many times, and I have found it a very nourishing diet.

I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful.

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides.

The question which we must ask ourselves is not whether we like or do not like what is going on, but what we are going to do about it.